In last year's inferno, this tiny city was ringed with fire: 100 mph winds drove blazes across every ridge around a valley so lovely it doubled as Shangri-La in the 1937 classic "Lost Horizon." Trees ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Windswept rain clouds raced over a swollen Brandywine Creek on a recent, blustery Sunday, and worshippers scattered like leaves to wander its muddy banks. One ran her hands over an ...

Members of a Windsor church can watch ducks paddle on Skye Lake, hear geese honk overhead and see chipmunks rustle through the leaves during Sunday services. Welcome to Church in the Wild, which holds ...

The pews at Wild Church are earth and rocks. The choir is the wind wrapping around the ponderosa pines. Here God is found in the pine cones, wildflowers and butterflies. And Tava, what American ...

Kristina Byrne, a freelance writer who considers herself religious, said she has come to every Church of the Wild service since its launch in April. Cradling her 2-year-old son, Adisa, on her hip, ...

BATAVIA — As the saying goes, church isn’t just a building. There’s also divine aspect to nature itself, which is why a group of church members and individuals have begun meeting monthly for what they ...

The sound of drumming filtered through the trees and called the people from their cars. Toting folding chairs and slathered in bug spray, they came from the parking lot — some young, some old; some in ...

The Wild Church Network lists over 200 groups, internationally, from Ohio to Australia. Most are nondenominational, secular groups that meet on private lands and in public parks. Unlike a traditional, ...

OJAI, Calif. (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, 12 people walked silently among resilient, reborn wildflowers and then shared their thoughts, sang and prayed in a circle of blankets under an oak tree. OJAI, ...